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Whistleblowing has been an important part of reacting to workplace corruption and oppression and trying to bring about dramatic change. In recent decades, whistleblowers have been treated with greater respect by the general public. Tom Devine is legal director of the Government Accountability Project and has represented a number of whistleblowers.

It’s been ten months since Phoenix council members approved a $75,000 contract for a consultant to evaluate the downtown arena where the Suns and Mercury play basketball. Wednesday, they approved spending another $125,000.

The county decided to spend $60 million to $65 million on a remodel of the massive concrete structure, which takes up a whole block of Third Avenue between Madison and Jackson streets in downtown Phoenix.

In the gritty Western "Godless" on Netflix, a tiny New Mexican town has been devastated by a mass casualty event in the local mine, a woman, twice-widowed, tries to raise her son on unyielding land, and a band of 30 outlaws roams the region hunting for a traitor.

A number of high-profile people in the entertainment world have been accused of sexual misconduct — from Harvey Weinstein to Kevin Spacey to Louis C.K. And that’s led to a lot of people questioning how to handle the work they’ve done and thinking about how and whether to watch their performances.

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